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I am fostering an eight year old girl who is struggling with some food issues and I need some advise.
The main challenge is dinner. She had been asking what was being served for dinner as soon as I picked her up from school. She would start in right away with I don't like that I'm not eating. I've set some limits with her asking hours ahead of time. She will not eat dinner! She will only eat a very short list of foods during other meal times.
We have gotten to the point where after we say grace when she starts to mope and complain. Our response is:" your welcome to eat with us. If you want to mope you can be excused to your room until the rest family is finished. Your dinner will be in the waiting if you want it. You may not eat anything else until breakfast." I serve very kid friendly but healthy meals that both of my two year olds and five year old eat with no problem. I understand that this is not about the food. She wakes up at least an hour before the rest of the house to help herself to breakfast and ends up waking the rest of us up.
I am getting really burnt out on refusing to eat and complaining every night for hours and having all of the younger children woken up early. HELP!